Chemical Physics Letters, Vol.368, No.1-2, 209-214, 2003
Local density enhancement in neat supercritical fluid due to attractive intermolecular interactions
Short-range structure in the neat supercritical fluid consisting of polar molecules is investigated by measuring Raman spectrum of fluoroform (CHF3) at reduced temperature T-r = T/T-c = 1.02. The spectra are analyzed by the Schweizer-Chandler model, and the spectral shift is decomposed into attractive and repulsive components as a function of density varied by a factor of 50. The attractive component shows larger shift than the one anticipated from the uniform molecular distribution. A local density enhancement due to the attractive intermolecular interactions is definitely observed in the neat supercritical fluid and evaluated against bulk density. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.